Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the president of Israel from 2007 to 2014. He was a member of twelve cabinets and represented five political parties in a political career spanning 70 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and except for three months out of office in early 2006, served as a member of the Knesset continuously until he was elected president in 2007.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Višnieva
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityNew York UniversityThe New SchoolIroni Alef High SchoolThe New School for Social Research
- Awards
- 🏆 Presidential Medal of Freedom🏆 Nobel Peace Prize
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Trending topics shown first"Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challen…"
"Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist."
"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time."
"We reject attempts to create a similarity between the Holocaust and the Armenian allegations. Nothing similar to the Holocaust occurred. It is a tragedy what the Armenians went through but not a genoc…"
"I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region."
"India represents the new world in a unique sense. Traditionally democracies were trying to bring equality to all walks of life, today there is a change. Democracy wants to enable every country to have…"
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1923
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